DYNAMICS OF THE NONLINEAR MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY IN OPTICAL FIBERS

被引:171
作者
TRILLO, S
WABNITZ, S
机构
[1] Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, 00142
关键词
D O I
10.1364/OL.16.000986
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We study the nonlinear evolution in optical fibers of a modulationally unstable continuous wave. We find that a good description of the propagation can be analytically obtained by a simple truncated three-wave model. The dynamic viewpoint may give an important physical insight in different processes, such as frequency conversion of modulated signals, all-optical generation of temporal codes, and the onset of spatiotemporal chaos.
引用
收藏
页码:986 / 988
页数:3
相关论文
共 13 条
[1]   ON HOMOCLINIC STRUCTURE AND NUMERICALLY INDUCED CHAOS FOR THE NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER-EQUATION [J].
ABLOWITZ, MJ ;
HERBST, BM .
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 1990, 50 (02) :339-351
[2]   MODULATION INSTABILITY AND PERIODIC-SOLUTIONS OF THE NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER-EQUATION [J].
AKHMEDIEV, NN ;
KORNEEV, VI .
THEORETICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 1986, 69 (02) :1089-1093
[3]  
AKHMEDIEV NN, 1988, ZH EKSP TEOR FIZ, V67, P89
[4]   DISINTEGRATION OF WAVE TRAINS ON DEEP WATER .1. THEORY [J].
BENJAMIN, TB ;
FEIR, JE .
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 1967, 27 :417-&
[5]   A MODAL REPRESENTATION OF CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS FOR THE DRIVEN, DAMPED PENDULUM CHAIN [J].
BISHOP, AR ;
FOREST, MG ;
MCLAUGHLIN, DW ;
OVERMAN, EA .
PHYSICS LETTERS A, 1990, 144 (01) :17-25
[6]   THIRD-ORDER THREE-WAVE MIXING IN SINGLE-MODE FIBERS: EXACT SOLUTIONS AND SPATIAL INSTABILITY EFFECTS [J].
CAPPELLINI, G ;
TRILLO, S .
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 1991, 8 (04) :824-838
[7]   THE ORIGIN AND SATURATION OF MODULATIONAL INSTABILITIES [J].
ERCOLANI, N ;
FOREST, MG ;
MCLAUGHLIN, DW .
PHYSICA D, 1986, 18 (1-3) :472-474
[8]   EFFECTS OF MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY ON COHERENT TRANSMISSION-SYSTEMS [J].
HASEGAWA, A ;
TAI, K .
OPTICS LETTERS, 1989, 14 (10) :512-513
[10]   HOMOCLINIC CROSSINGS AND PATTERN SELECTION [J].
MOON, HT .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1990, 64 (04) :412-414